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+/*
+ * Copyright 2018 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
+ * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+ * permissions and limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.boot.data.geode.cache.peer;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.springframework.data.gemfire.util.RuntimeExceptionFactory.newIllegalStateException;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+import org.apache.geode.cache.GemFireCache;
+import org.apache.geode.cache.Region;
+import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.GemFireCacheImpl;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.LocalRegionFactoryBean;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.config.annotation.PeerCacheApplication;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.util.RegionUtils;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
+
+/**
+ * The SpringBootApacheGeodePeerCacheApplicationIntegrationTests class...
+ *
+ * @author John Blum
+ * @since 1.0.0
+ */
+@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration
+@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+public class SpringBootApacheGeodePeerCacheApplicationIntegrationTests {
+
+	private static final String GEMFIRE_LOG_LEVEL = "error";
+
+	@Autowired
+	private GemFireCache peerCache;
+
+	@Test
+	public void peerCacheWithPeerLocalRegionAreAvailable() {
+
+		Optional.ofNullable(this.peerCache)
+			.filter(it -> it instanceof GemFireCacheImpl)
+			.map(it -> (GemFireCacheImpl) it)
+			.map(it -> assertThat(it.isClient()).isFalse())
+			.orElseThrow(() -> newIllegalStateException("Peer cache was null"));
+
+		Region<Object, Object> example = peerCache.getRegion("/Example");
+
+		assertThat(example).isNotNull();
+		assertThat(example.getName()).isEqualTo("Example");
+		assertThat(example.getFullPath()).isEqualTo(RegionUtils.toRegionPath("Example"));
+
+		example.put(1, "test");
+
+		assertThat(example.get(1)).isEqualTo("test");
+	}
+
+	@SpringBootApplication
+	@PeerCacheApplication(logLevel = GEMFIRE_LOG_LEVEL)
+	static class TestConfiguration {
+
+		@Bean("Example")
+		public LocalRegionFactoryBean<Object, Object> exampleRegion(GemFireCache gemfireCache) {
+
+			LocalRegionFactoryBean<Object, Object> exampleRegion = new LocalRegionFactoryBean<>();
+
+			exampleRegion.setCache(gemfireCache);
+			exampleRegion.setClose(false);
+			exampleRegion.setPersistent(false);
+
+			return exampleRegion;
+		}
+	}
+}